Quote

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

Finley Peter Dunne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Finley Peter Dunne
Age: 68 †
Born: 1867
Born: July 10
Died: 1936
Died: April 24
Author
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Time
Decorated
Shelf
Shelves
Main
Library
Firsts
First
Thing

More quotes by Finley Peter Dunne

Image
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
Finley Peter Dunne